Re: Usefulness of compliance section in Web Accessible Mobile document

For what it's worth, I agree.

On 19 Feb 2008, at 14:50, Jo Rabin wrote:

>
> No I don't think we are quite answering the same thing.
>
> Firstly I think there is the notion of compliance to Best Practices,
> though the notion of compliance to mobileOK is much more hard edged.
>
> Secondly there is value in stating that compliance with the Best
> Practices produces accessibility benefits that do not assist with
> complicance [because they have been dropped as untestable in WCAG 2.0,
> or for any other reason]
>
> Thirdly, there's likely to be benefit the other way round too, i.e.
> compliance with WCAG 2.0 is likely to have mobility benefits that are
> not spelled out in the best practices (because we determined that the
> benefits they bring are not specifically mobile enough, for example).
>
> jo
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Sean Owen [mailto:srowen@google.com]
>> Sent: 19 February 2008 14:41
>> To: Jo Rabin
>> Cc: Phil Archer; MWI BPWG Public; EOWG
>> Subject: Re: Usefulness of compliance section in Web Accessible  
>> Mobile
>> document
>>
>> To be sure we're answering the same question -- seems like the
>> question was not whether following BPs or mobileOK improves your
>> compliance with WCAG, but whether we should have a notion of what is
>> recommended, beyond what is necessary for compliance, with Best
>> Practices. My assertion is that Best Practices can include all these
>> elements and that there is no notion of compliance with BPs. Some
>> subset of what is in BPs will be translated into mobileOK, for which
>> there is a clear notion of compliance. Done.
>>
>> On Feb 19, 2008 7:33 AM, Jo Rabin <jrabin@mtld.mobi> wrote:
>>>> From our reading of the document over the last couple of BP
> meetings it
>>> seems that there is a very substantial number that are noted as
>>> improving accessibility, though they don't improve your prospects of
>>> compliance. The overall conclusion I draw is that following Mobile
> Web
>>> Best Practice in general improves accessibility and to some more
> limited
>>> extent improves your chances of conformance. So like Phil, I agree
> that
>>> this should be spelled out.
>
>

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